April 2025

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mercurymasc:

a twin cinema poem. the left half (gideon) reads "forgotten and discarded in a moment, how can you be so callous and cruel when i gave you all. holy wasn't enough for you. i have learned to freefall and hear our names in the wind. this pain and you, intertwined." the right half (harrow) reads "endless grief for a future that doesn't exist. holding on, after everything, clawed and desecrated and still. i know it well; beloved, in our absence i shoulder everything, crying in the night. i take from you. let me stay forever." together, the two halves read: "forgotten and endless grief discarded in a moment for a future that doesn't exist. how can you be holding on, so callous and cruel after everything when i clawed and gave you all. desecrated and holy still. i know it wasn't enough for you. well, beloved, i have learned in our absence to freefall. i shoulder everything, and hear crying in the night, our names in the wind. i take this pain from you, and you let me stay intertwined forever." the poem is accredited at the bottom to mal delta.ALT

finally tried my hand at a twin cinema poem and yaowza !! took me a couple hours to figure it out but i’m very happy with this one and i wanted to share. you can read gideon and harrow’s thoughts separately to see their perspectives on their own and each other’s actions, and putting them together supposedly reveals the truth of the lengths they would go to but can’t communicate to one another :3

i just think that a form where they are talking to one another without hearing any response and yet are intertwining so perfectly is deeply on theme and makes me ill

also sorry for image quality i formatted this on canva and idk how to put such a complex form into an image description so apologies </3

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s-aint-elmo:

two grayscale busts of ianthe and coronabeth tridentarius side by side. they have the same features, but different appearances and expressions. ianthe is pale and gaunt, her half-lidded smirk framed by messy fly-away strands of her wavy hair. an earring in the shape of an orchid hangs from her visible ear. corona is tanned and healthy, framed by voluminous ringlets and grinning at the viewer, a dimple popping from her cheek. large earrings in the shape of monarch butterflies dangle from her ears.ALT
two grayscale busts of nona and harrowhark nonagesimus side by side. nona beams and winks at the viewer, cheeks flushed and slightly fuller than harrow's. her curly hair is wrangled into a pair of long braids, fraying in ringlets and fly-aways. her ears have visible empty piercings that are filled with bone chips in harrow's bust. harrow stares the viewer down with a frown, clad in ninth face paint and her lyctor's robe. her hair has grown out into a mess of curls that halo her head.ALT
two grayscale busts of palamedes sextus, in camilla's body, and camilla hect side by side. palamedes lends camilla's stern, square features a softer touch, smiling warmly but subtly at the viewer. camilla herself has a neutral but firm expression. palamedes's eyes are covered by gideon's aviator sunglasses, and camilla's chin-length bob is noticeably longer on his side. ALT
two grayscale busts of gideon the first and pyrrha dve, in gideon's body, side by side. gideon's face is hard-edged, weathered and scarred, gazing out at the viewer with sullen detachment. pyrrha, however, winks at the viewer with a wide grin, her hair grown out slightly from gideon's close shave.ALT
two grayscale busts of naberius tern side by side. on the left, the living naberius is tanned, coiffed and square-jawed, shooting the viewer a wink and a lopsided grin with glossy lips. a beauty mark sits beside his right eye, and a thin earring dangles from his ear. the body of naberius, as puppeted by ianthe, sports a deathly pallor and the high collar of the tower prince's uniform, his curly hair undone and parted at the side to frame his face. ianthe wears her half-lidded smirk from the first image, the same orchid earring hanging from her ear.ALT

the theme is same faces

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